QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 11 April 2019

The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs. The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.

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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2019

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Question 1 of 5

1. Question

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The countries bordering Venezuela are

Brazil

Suriname

Colombia

Guyana

Select the correct code:

a) 1, 2, 3

b) 1, 2, 3, 4

c) 1, 3, 4

d) 1, 3

Correct

Solution: c)

Incorrect

Solution: c)

Question 2 of 5

2. Question

1 points

Consider the following statements about International Labour Organisation (ILO).

ILO is the only tripartite U.N. agency since 1919, that brings together governments, employers and workers of its member States.

India has ratified more than half of the ILO conventions.

ILO is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019.

Future of Work initiative was launched by ILO.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a) 1, 2, 3

b) 2, 3, 4

c) 1, 2, 3, 4

d) 1, 3, 4

Correct

Solution: d)

ILO is the only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 that brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.

India being a founding member has played an active role in every field of the organization. India has ratified 47 out of 189 ILO conventions during the century.

ILO is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019.

In order to understand and to respond effectively to new challenges, ILO launched a “Future of Work initiative” in order to advance its mandate for social justice.

ILO is the only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 that brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.

India being a founding member has played an active role in every field of the organization. India has ratified 47 out of 189 ILO conventions during the century.

ILO is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019.

In order to understand and to respond effectively to new challenges, ILO launched a “Future of Work initiative” in order to advance its mandate for social justice.

“Biodiversity Heritage Sites” (BHS) are well defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems – terrestrial, coastal and inland waters and, marine having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the following components: richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories, high endemism, presence of rare and threatened species, keystone species, species of evolutionary significance, wild ancestors of domestic/cultivated species or their varieties, past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity, with or without a long history of human association with them.

Under Section 37 of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BDA) the State Government in consultation with local bodies may notify in the official gazette, areas of biodiversity importance as Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS).

“Biodiversity Heritage Sites” (BHS) are well defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems – terrestrial, coastal and inland waters and, marine having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the following components: richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories, high endemism, presence of rare and threatened species, keystone species, species of evolutionary significance, wild ancestors of domestic/cultivated species or their varieties, past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity, with or without a long history of human association with them.

Under Section 37 of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BDA) the State Government in consultation with local bodies may notify in the official gazette, areas of biodiversity importance as Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS).

4. Question

Consider the following statements about Joint maritime surveillance system, recently seen in news.

ISRO and European Space Agency have signed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance system in India.

They will put up a constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will identify and track movement of ships only in the Indian Ocean region.

It provides for a maritime surveillance centre to be set up in India.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

a) 1, 2

b) 2, 3

c) 1, 3

d) 1, 2, 3

Correct

Solution: a)

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Paris based National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) of France have signed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance system in India.

The two nations will explore putting up a constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will identify and track movement of ships globally and in particular those moving in the Indian Ocean region where France has its Reunion Islands.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Paris based National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) of France have signed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance system in India.

The two nations will explore putting up a constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will identify and track movement of ships globally and in particular those moving in the Indian Ocean region where France has its Reunion Islands.